Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4, sentence 64
Rude indeed it is, but like the hills which its authors tenanted with gods, holding dells [Note: Those sacred hills will generally be found to have this character.] of the most perfect beauty, springs of the most touching pathos.
Who acts: hills, authors, Note, sacred hills · What happens: be, author, tenant, hold, find, have · To what, where: authors, dells, sacred hills, character
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hills, authors, Note, sacred hills), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 is | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 is | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Rude | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hills | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 hills | cc |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 hills | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hills | det |
| 9 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rude | conj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 authors | nsubj |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 authors | nmod:poss |
| 12 | authors | author | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hills | nmod |
| 13 | tenanted | tenant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 authors | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 gods | case |
| 15 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tenanted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 holding | punct |
| 17 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 authors | acl |
| 18 | dells | dell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 holding | obj |
| 19 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 20 Note | punct |
| 20 | Note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dells | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 found | punct |
| 22 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 hills | det |
| 23 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hills | amod |
| 24 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 found | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 found | aux |
| 26 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 28 found | advmod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 found | aux:pass |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 Note | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 have | mark |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 found | xcomp |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 character | det |
| 32 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 have | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 holding | punct |
| 34 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 authors | punct |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 beauty | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 beauty | det |
| 37 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 38 perfect | advmod |
| 38 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 beauty | amod |
| 39 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hills | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 springs | punct |
| 41 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 beauty | conj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 pathos | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 pathos | det |
| 44 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 45 touching | advmod |
| 45 | touching | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 46 pathos | amod |
| 46 | pathos | patho | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 springs | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rude | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the hills of the perfect beauty and springs of the touching pathos conj; rude property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | author | the hills of the perfect beauty and springs of the touching pathos | literature nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tenant | participle | literature's authors not said here | with gods | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hold | gerund | literature's authors not said here | dells and Note | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dell=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | future · passive | Note not said here | that sacred hills | generally property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 6 | have | to-infinitive | that sacred hills not said here | this character | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Patient | ||||
| 7 | touch | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Project Gutenberg book 8109 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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